EMS SAFETY

Course Content: NAEMT’s EMS Safety course teaches students how to protect themselves and their patients while on the job. It promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. Its interactive format features real-life case studies and compelling discussions on current safety issues and provides participants with a forum to share their own experiences. Critical thinking stations help build participants’ risk assessment and decision-making skills.

Participants are taught:

To identify and manage the hazards that can appear during daily tasks, from offensive drivers to violent encounters to chronic stress.

Practical strategies that they can apply in the field, from situational awareness to defensive driving to verbal deflection.

How to strengthen their resiliency skills in order to combat both chronic and critical incident stress.

Ensuring personal readiness for the daily challenges and hazards of working in the field through optimal personal health.

Course Format / Time: EMS Safety is offered as an 8-hour classroom course and is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners, other medical professionals providing prehospital patient care, and EMS supervisors and administrators.

Course Materials: Students will be required to have the EMS Safety manual for class. This can be purchased during enrollment.

Enrollment Cut-off: Enrollment closes when the class is full. Those that enroll within a few days fo the class may have their book held until the day of the class.

Certification: Students who successfully complete the course receive a certificate of completion and a wallet card good for 4 years. EMS Safety is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.